© The Sanniah Experience! (TSE) By Sanniah Hassan One encounter is all it takes – To silence – a generation. To mute a woman, Into submission and the darkness of her soul. One animal attack - And silence, forever None comes to her aid – They all say “hush, don’t talk about it” As if not talking will subdue the terror within her, As if it will put her perpetrator behind bars! Not talking doesn’t help! It never has; it never will. Silence grows like cancer slowly, Painfully, Killing her from within. Leaving nothing but a hollow shell… People say “be quiet, child” as if that could make the pain go away – Hush! Means silence… They mean to suppress her To take her voice from her Her only weapon – And make her a helpless prey. A hollow, A body without a soul, Merely existing, never living. No one wants to listen, Her parents refuse to believe, She must...